After Atzmon identifies his primary target, "The Jews" who consider themselves Jews first, whatever group that may be, he than slippery slopes to identifying Zionists as:
He briefly meinsplains that this means Zionists consider themselves Jews first. So just like his definition of "The Jews" who consider themselves Jews first, his definition of "The Zionists" is not based on any survey, study or research. It's based on his selection of a few old quotes from extremist writings. It's unclear than what the group of Jews is here. His combination of subject "The Jews" and lack of clarity as to what group of Jews it includes gives the impression that he means a rather large percent of "The Jews".The Zionist is first and foremost a Jew.
Specifically regrading "Zionist" the common definition is:
Zionism
All it means is Jews who support a Jewish homeland in historic Israel. Most Jews now do support a Jewish homeland in Israel but again, don't consider themselves Jews first. Atzmon claims contra the definition of Zionism that Zionism is not merely limited to the issue of Israel but:Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת Tsiyyonut Hebrew pronunciation: [t͡sijo̞ˈnut] after Zion) is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Canaan, the Holy Land, or the region of Palestine).[1][2][3][4]
So it's a global network like Dr. Evil's and because it acts globally only in its own interests it always acts against the interests of the country where it lives and the world as a whole. While Atzmon is long on the extent of this evil Jewish Empire he is short on evidence. His evidence:Zionism is not a colonial movement with an interest in Palestine, as some scholars suggest. Zionism is actually a global movement that is fuelled by a unique tribal solidarity of third category members.
- 1) Jonathan Pollard
2) Paul Wolfowitz (solely responsible for Iraq/any other Mideast wars per Atzmon)
Atzmon seems to have a pendactic relationship between the quantity of his evidence and conclusion. The less evidence he has the greater the conclusion. At this point in the book he strikes me as a troll/Ann Coulter type. Intentionally overstating to get attention. And Godfree is a sucker for trolls.Looking at Zionism as an organismus would lead to a major shift in our perspective of current world affairs. The Palestinians, for instance, aren’t just the victims of the Israeli occupation, they are actually the victims of a unique global political identity, namely the third category people who transformed the Holy Land into a Jewish bunker. The Iraqis are better seen as the victims of those third category infiltrators within British and American administrations, who succeed in transforming the American and British armies into a Zionist mission force. The Muslim world should be seen as subject to the third category attempt to make ‘moral interventionism’ ideology into the new Western expansionist Bible. Americans and Brits and, to a certain extent, the West are all subject to a financial turmoil known as the ‘credit crunch’. It could be seen as a Zio-punch.
Joseph
The New Porphyry